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Simon McNeil
@simonm223.bsky.social
Artist, critic, weirdo pomo leftist.
Opinions do not represent anybody else.
Ask me my opinions on wizards.
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Blogger at http://simonmcneil.com
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January 26, 2026 at 8:19 PM
World's second-most divorced man realizes he will never see his kids again.
January 26, 2026 at 8:24 PM
It was never about morality; it was always about power.
wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,
wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
January 26, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Damn you Brennan Lee Mulligan, just ONE full episode on the schemers I beg you. The teasing is killing me. LOL
The Seekers arrive in Riesingürtle, where they explore the city and parley with Lord Einfasen, the head of the mighty and intimidating House Einfasen... 🧭

#CriticalRole Campaign 4, Episode 12 - "The Giant's Belt" is now available on YouTube! ✨

WATCH NOW ⬇️
https://youtu.be/WRtb_XzfNTA
January 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM
My apologies to @peterwatts.bsky.social who appears to be an entirely different author from the Peter Watts who I knew.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 PM
You know, a decade ago, I was hanging out with @peterwatts.bsky.social at the bar on the last day of Ad Astra and he told me the story of his final visit to the United States including how he was brutalized by border patrol ...
January 26, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Poilievre has young men by a narrow margin and basically nobody else. And note: young men are one of the biggest targets of far-right online bullshit.
Net-Favourables Of Pierre Poilievre:

🔴 All: -20%

🔴 Men: -7%
🔴 Women: -31%

🟢 18-34 Year Olds: +3%
🔴 35-49 Year Olds: -10%
🔴 50-64 Year Olds: -25%
🔴 65+ Year Olds: -47%

Liaison / Jan 24, 2026
January 26, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Anthropic and OpenAI are weird millenarian cults with venture funding and should be treated as such.

"Anthropic rep says..." should be treated with all the seriousness and gravity as, "Raelian representative Brigitte Boisselier said..."
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Amanda, be honest, did you get "Claude" to write this for you?
This is Amanda Askell's most recent published paper. It's real bad. As in it's longtermist claptrap. It's unsurprising that Anthropic has such an unserious twit as their house philosopher.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 26, 2026 at 7:04 PM
If these Nazis can't handle people with whistles and boxes of free snacks imagine how they'll fold the first time they face real insurgents.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This is the funniest way for a guy to say that he blew up his whole life. Comedy gold.
*It's interesting to see these spontaneous science-fiction dystopias in tweet form
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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lowest ratings of the century SO FAR
January 26, 2026 at 6:51 PM
This is Amanda Askell's most recent published paper. It's real bad. As in it's longtermist claptrap. It's unsurprising that Anthropic has such an unserious twit as their house philosopher.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 26, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I would almost hope GenAI could feel (we know for sure it cannot unless stones can feel) because it would make the hate I feel for it more satisfying.
January 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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someone's realizing he might for real lose his seat over this, huh
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Couldn't resist this one
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Well, happy birthday!
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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maybe the next atlantic article can be an actual apology that isn't littered with complaining about leftists saying "fascism" before you, as if you need to pepper in "I'm not like THEM" to earn yourself mainstream centrist street cred.

it was insulting. I don't have to praise someone insulting me.
January 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
In this piece I explore pessimism in climate fiction and what climate fiction can tell us about information technology regimes.
January 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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I Have the Key to All of This
By Tiernan Blanchard
www.typebarmagazine.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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There Is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy

www.typebarmagazine.com/there-is-no-...
There is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy
Ask not what a dragon does, but what a dragon is
www.typebarmagazine.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Technology, Power, and Violence: How the Tangled Lands Tackles Climate Fiction by @simonm223.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/technology-p...
Technology, Power, and Violence: How the Tangled Lands Tackles Climate Fiction
Saving the world is more complex than solar panels and good vibes.
www.typebarmagazine.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Cuts to the research & scientific expertise that guard public health - in this case food safety - are very troubling in light of Canada’s weakened ability to rely on US science.

Protecting Canadians requires more, not less, in these areas.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is closing seven of its research operations
Work force will be reduced by about 665 positions, organization says, as part of government’s effort to shrink public service
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Most of what's going on right now isn't people saying "I told you so," it's people saying "please listen to us the next time."
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
January 26, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Radical centrists are usually left arguing with college students and the people who annoy them on twitter because their project has involved excluding the left from actual publications that pay writers
January 26, 2026 at 12:42 PM